Raz Weiner

Dr. Raz Weiner forscht in den Bereichen Performance Studies, Politik und Verkörperung. In seiner Arbeit befasst er sich mit Traditionen, Archiven und zeitgenössischen Formen von Kolonialismus, Rassifizierung und Queerness, der Produktion von Körpern und Wissen sowie der Ko-Konstitution von menschlichen Gesellschaften und digitalen Welten. Als ausgebildeter Schauspieler und Regisseur verfügt Raz über umfangreiche Erfahrungen in den Bereichen Performance und Kunst sowie in der Bildung und Moderation von multikulturellen Gruppen.

Bevor er Forschungsstipendiat (2023) und Gastdozent (2024) an der mdw wurde, war er an der School of Politics and IR an der Queen Mary University in London (2020-22) und an der Fakultät für Architektur und Stadtplanung am Technion in Haifa (2021-3) tätig, wo er zu " data-theatres" forschte und an innovativen digitalen Werkzeugen zur Bekämpfung sozialer Ungleichheiten in der städtischen Entscheidungsfindung mitarbeitete.

 

Zeitschriftenbeiträge (Peer-reviewed)

 

 

  • Weiner, Raz. 2024. ‘Playing Africans: Kibbutz Educational Performance, 1950s–1990s’. The Drama Review (TDR) 68:3 (T263) https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204324000236
  • Weiner, Raz., Mello Rose, F., Yossef Ravid, B., Rainer Noennig, J., & Aharon-Gutman, M. 2023. ‘Place-bound planning support systems for deliberation: Affording better communication and comprehension’. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231217784
  • Weiner, Raz. 2021. ‘Disorienting Settler-Phenomenology: Architecture Drag and the Dramaturgy of Archive Misalignment’. Contemporary Theatre Review 31 (1–2): 212–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2021.1878501
  • Weiner, Raz. 2020. ‘Of Hills and Wheels Tilda Death Drags Memory’. In Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1, edited by Stephen Farrier and Mark Edward. Methuen Drama. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350082977

Im Review

  • Weiner, Raz & Aharon-Gutman, Meirav. ‘How Can Immersive Theatre Inform the Design and Use of Immersive Visualisation Theatres for Smart Cities’, City and Community

Im Erscheinen

  • Weiner, Raz & Aharon-Gutman, Meirav. ’Metaphor as Vehicle:  the role of metaphorical embodiment in the mediation of new data visualisation environments for urban planning. Journal of Planning Theory
  • Weiner, Raz & Meirav Aharon Gutman. ‘Between Orientation and Presence: Comparing decision-making in a descriptive model with decision-making in an immersive model. Cities

 

Sammelbandbeiträge

 

Weiner, Raz. Lexical entrees ‘Zvi Friedland’, ‘Yosef Milo’, ‘Nisism Aloni’, ‘Udi Ben Moshe’, ‘Yael Ronen’ and ‘Bashar Murkus’; The 2024 Edition of Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Directors and Directing. Ed. Maria Delgado and Simon Williams.

 

Buchrezensionen

 

 

 

Theatre und Performance  (Selected works)

 

  • Writer and Performer in the drag lecture performance On Stage the Pain Was Less, The Comedy Festival, Jerusalem 2022
  • Maker of Isolated Case: A data play, A-Genre Festival Tel-Aviv, 2022
  • Translator and director of Gustav by Henrik Bratberg, Habima Theatre 2023, English version, Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival, Norway, June 2022
  • Co-founder of Queervention (London UK), a queer artistic platform of co-resistance: creating a performance for Tate Modern Museum on May 2019, hosting a panel on ‘Queer Jewish humour’ June 2018 at Kings College, and a Raze-Collective produced show Cocktails Before the Revolution in December 2020
  • Directing and dramaturgy in the drag-king show Motherland, Camden People’s Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre, London UK 2019
  • Directing and dramaturgy for Emma Berentsen autobiographic work ‘Ann Meets Jeffery’, Battersea Arts Centre, London UK 2019
  • Dramaturg and director at Mystorin Theatre Group, creating large scale site-specific and immersive theatre experiences (SEVEN Tel-Aviv Central Bus Station 2014; Aftershook VR performance, Jerusalem 2017; Who Killed Arlosoroff? The Musical!  Beit-Ha’air Tel Aviv 2018; Uncaged lockdown-time interactive digital comic thriller 2020 and others)
  • Drag Artist since 2013, maker and actor of the monodrama Life and Times of Tilda Death, Israel Festival, Jerusalem. Transferred to the Jaffa Theatre, Tel-Aviv

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Raz Weiner

Postdoc Fellow

E-Mail: weiner@mdw.ac.at